On 29 Nov 2001 at 13:14, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Ian Abbott wrote:
> 
> > > However, the Linux man page for bcopy(3) do not say the strings can
> > > overlap
> 
> >  Presumably the man page is incorrect

Yes, I think so.

> Well, can we actually guarantee that bcopy() will work on all platforms where
> memmove() is not present?

HAVE_BCOPY?

> I wouldn't be so bold to say that. I'd vote for a separate implemenation. But
> that's just me.

That's the easiest thing to do. It's only used at the moment for removing duplicate 
outgoing 
cookies. I don't know how often you get duplicate cookies, and the current mechanism 
for 
removing them isn't all that efficient when there are multiple duplicates to be 
removed anyway!

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